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Choose just one of the following options, and write a unified, developed response that makes reference to three (or two, if you have a lot to say) separate texts that we have studied during the course of our semester.

NOTE: The three readings must come from at least two separate eras as these periods are marked off on our syllabus. Choose a topic that you have not written about previously.

1) It has been stated that African American Literature has been a challenge to the professed ideals of Christianity and the stated ideals of America itself. Choosing three texts from our readings (at least two that you have not previously written about), discuss the ideas & perspectives of the writers who make this challenge, noting their specific points made.

2) Built into the strain of white American racism is the belief that Africans, and then African Americans, i.e., dark-skinned people, are inherently inferior to lighter-skinned, “white” people. How do three of our writers refute this absurd claim? Be specific as you elaborate their ideas.

3) Discuss the black female as signified in three of our texts, emphasizing some of the problems, challenges, and injustices that black women have historically been forced to confront. (If you choose Zora Neale Hurston as one of your texts, you are obviously looking at a more positively stated view of the black female.)

4) W.E.B. DuBois asks the question, “How does it feel to be a problem? . . . . [B]eing a problem is a strange experience, — peculiar even for one who has never been anything else.” Clarifying DuBois’s concepts of “the veil” and “double-consciousness,” connect his ideas to one narrative and one poem that we have read and discussed in class.

5) Arthur Schomburg states, “The Negro has been a man without a history because he has been considered a man without a worthy culture,” and it was this belief that Schomburg devoted his life to disproving. How do Schomburg and two other writers from our class assignments affirm the power of history/memory in the empowerment and progress of African Americans?

 
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